Honda Stream Tops in MPV Safety

Honda’s new Stream people carrier has been recognised as one of the safest of its type on the market, in the latest Euro NCAP safety tests. The stylish and top-performing 7-seater earned a highly creditable four star rating in the severe frontal and side impact tests and a best-in-class three star rating for pedestrian protection performance.

No competitor achieves such a good combination score for the impact and pedestrian safety tests (see chart below). Furthermore, the Stream’s 61 per cent pedestrian score is the highest result for any small MPV to date; indeed only one other competitor has achieved three stars.

This further endorsement of the safety of Honda’s product range follows an outstanding result earlier in the year when the Civic recorded the highest-ever pedestrian rating of any car ever tested, as well as four stars in the frontal and side impact tests.

The results for both Civic and Stream fully demonstrate the effectiveness of Honda’s continuing programme of intensive research into vehicle safety issues. Euro NCAP assessments are significantly more severe than those under current European legislation.

Euro NCAP results - Mini MPVs

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Editor’s notes:

• The Stream scored 26 points, or 76 per cent, in the occupant protection results (offside deformable barrier and side impact tests combined) and
  22 points or 61 per cent in the pedestrian impact results.
• Euro NCAP is an independent crash test consortium which includes the UK, Netherlands, Swedish, French and German Governments; and a number of automobile associations and consumer groups including the Alliance Internationale de Tourisme (AIT); the Federation Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA); the German motoring organisation ADAC; and International Consumer Research and Testing (ICRT). The programme is supported by the European Commission.
• The programme was established to provide comparative crash test information on some of the most popular cars sold in Europe. The first results were published in February 1997.
• More detailed information on the latest Euro NCAP results are available at www.euroncap.com